VSLE7X1 Medical ethics

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2000
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Marta Munzarová, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Tomáš Lajkep, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Marta Munzarová, CSc.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • 1 Ethics and philosophy. A philosophical basis of ethics.
  • 2.Ethics and psychiatry. The history of psychiatry. Involuntary hospitalization. Treating patients without their consent.
  • 3. Ethics and genethics. Eugenics and past mistakes, genetics at the population level. consensus ethics in medical genetic. Human genome project.
  • 4. The beginnig of human life }etical problems of abortions, asisted reproduction / arteficial procreation /, antenatal diagnosis.
  • 5. Ethical codes, Hippocratic Oath, Four basical principles: the duty not to harm, to benefit, the respect of autonomie, and justice.
  • 6. Ethics and oncology. Death and dying. Caring for the dying person and his relatives, the attitudes towards death, the definition of death.
  • 7. Ethics and rights of patients. Informent consent, confidentiality, breaching of confidentiality. Have we got a consent form.
  • 8. Ethics and ontology. The dimension of human person, the dignity of man. Ontological aspects of ethics.
  • 9. Medical research with living subjects /Nuremberg code, Declaration of Helsinki, informed consent, nonethical research in modern time, ethics of research on animals.
  • 10. Active euthanasia and asisted suicide. Movements for active euthanasia, slippery slope. Nazi Germany - euthanasia movement. Holland model and its criticism. The limits of self-destruction.
Literature
  • Úvod do studia lékařské etiky a bioetiky. Edited by Marta Munzarová. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita-Lékařská fakulta, 1995, 29 s. ISBN 80-210-1057-6. info
  • MUNZAROVÁ, Marta. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etiky. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 75 s. ISBN 80-210-1610-8. info
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Lékařská etika. Praha: Galén, 1994. ISBN 8085824035. info
  • Philosophical medical ethics. Edited by Raanan Gillon. [1st ed.]. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1986, x, 189 s. ISBN 0-471-91222-0. info
  • Virtues in medical practice. Edited by Edmund D. Pellegrino - David C. Thomasma. [1st ed.]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, xiv, 205 s. ISBN 0-19-508289-3. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Výuka probíhá blokově, účast na seminážích je povinná. Chybějící semináře je nutno nahradit. Výuka je zakončena kolokviem, které je ústní.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every other week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: bloková výuka.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006.
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